Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label quotes. Show all posts

Tuesday, July 31, 2007

Inspiration for a Solution


" I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts." -Abraham Lincoln

Source:
GOA, How Should the Federal Government Do Business in the 21st Century?, General David M. Walker, September 15, 2000
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Thursday, July 12, 2007

A Quote from the 200 Deutsch Mark

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That's German currency for those that don't get out of the country.
"Laypeople frequently assume that in a political dispute the truth must lie somewhere in the middle, and they are often right. In a scientific dispute, though, such an assumption is usually wrong." - 1908 Nobel Laureate Paul Ehrlich (March 14, 1854 – August 20, 1915)
Looks like after a hundred years nothing has changed.

Source:
Woods Hole Research Center, What the Skeptics Don't Tell You

Tuesday, January 02, 2007

A Quote for the New Year

“What keeps me going is my belief that there is still a chance of avoiding catastrophe.” -Dr. John P. Holdren, Harvard professor, president of the American Association for the Advancement of Science

Source:
NYT's, Middle Stance Emerges in Debate Over Climate, ANDREW C. REVKIN, January 1, 2007